A Pike County bus driver was asked to resign after a school-initiated investigation. According to deputy superintendent Linda Tanner, the driver of the bus carried primary and elementary students to and from school.

Are you sick of this yet? Parents should bare the burden of getting their children to school and this would not be happening. Why do we have to buy the bus, build a shop to maintain them, buy the fuel, buy the video systems, radios, pay the drivers, pay for their health insurance, risk management insurance and remember all the paid holidays. If you can't get your kids to school then don't have kids. Go out and buy a big SUV and join the elite traffic jam every morning on 19.

actually, i think it is time to get rid of the board of education, the georgia department of education and the us department of education. stop taxing the people for these corrupt organizations and go back to everyone home-schooling. farmers will teach their kids to farm, professionals will teach their kids a profession and educational administrators will teach their kids nothing, which is what they've been teaching everyone else for years.

No more buses.
No more drivers.
Parents go buy big alarm clocks and get your butts out of bed and take those green straw kids to school yourselves.
The big tellow bus takes them to be babysit at school at the taxpayers expense.
If you can't take you own kids to school then get fixed so you can't have more.

Get your facts straigh here people...this driver in question I know personally. And what he did was try and be a friend to a student who is having a difficult time at home and shareed a handhout about HIS CHURCH and GOD!! Yes, sooo inappropriate of an action I know!! PLEASE!!!!!!

I am stunned by some of these comments! Saying that if people can't get their kids to school then they shouldn't be havin kids is the most stupid thing to say!!! Yall, don't know everyone's situation. Just because you can, does not mean that everyone has that option. Some kids live with grandparents who are on a fixed income, some families can't afford gas anymore to get them there and back, some people have jobs to get to, some people can't get off work in time to pick up there kids, some people don't have extended families that live in the state to help out with the kids and the list can go on and on! Alot of families depend on the buses to get their children to school, like it or not! They are not going to do away with the buses to save any tax dollars and we aren't going to revert back to olden days, SORRY! So lets get back to what the article was actually about! A bus driver was asked to resign due to the fact that he was trying to establish an inappropriate relationship with elementary students! That is very scarey! Thank goodness that the parents of the child listen to what their child was saying and knew that something was wrong with what was going on, on the bus and then brought their concerns to the Board of Education. The people on the board are just that, people!!!! They can't be everywhere all the time, they need the help of parents. They can only try to do the best that they can, just like we all do!! Well, most of us anyway! Some people just like to spread hate and discontent!!! I don't mind my tax dollars going to education, it's all the other none important stuff they spend the tax money on that gets my blood boiling!! That's all beside the point though!! The safety of our counties children, no matter their families situation should be a top priority!! They are just children and they can't help if they have to ride a bus or not. By the way, just because you drive your kids to school in your "BIG SUV" or your tiny car DOES NOT make you a great parent!!

Did you see a tape or here a video? Do you know what goes on in your friends head and in his personal life? Are you with him 24/7? Isn't it a state law that religious material is not to be given out by people employed by the school? Is your friend a counselor for kids? If your friend wanted to help a child with problems at home shouldn't he have went to the childs house and introduced himself to the family and asked the whole family to come to his church so he could help his or her whole family on his personal time? Was the material he gave to the child age appropriate for an elementary student? ANYONE can be a CREEPER!!! People use all kinds of things to get in with small kids these days! I guess he shoulda thought about that. Some actions throw up red flags for parents!

We dont know what happened exactly because none of us were there to know what happened. And unless you were on the bus that day with that bus driver and that child, you cant say anything. And if you do its all just hearsay. However, I am still thankful for these bus drivers. I would LOVE to be able to drive my kids to school each day but because of my nursing job I am unable to do so. So, yes I depend on them stopping by the house each morning and dropping my son off at the high school each afternoon for band practice. I can say that we have had the same bus driver for many years down our road and she is wonderful. She has let me know of changes in the route before they happen and if something happens on the bus in regards to my child, she gives me a call. She doesnt have to do that but Im glad she does. It lets me know that my child is important and I respect her even more for it.

Maybe the bus driver was using Religion to divert attention away from what his true intentions were!! See, that can go either way!! That my friend is not what any good Christian would do!! A good Christian would not ask 10 year old children to lie!! A good Christian person would let his intentions be known to the whole family in an appropriate way!

You need to realize this country was founded on the Gospel of Jesus Christ and ignorant people like you do everything you can to take him out of it. If you or anyone else doesn’t like the fact that we are a God believing, God fearing, God loving country then there are many other countries who would love to have you there. We as Christians are fed up with being silent and letting the few minority be our voice and we are beginning to forcefully take our country back with God's help. If you are not for God you are against him and that is a place you do not want to be !!!

SAVE OUR COUNTY FROM BANKRUPTCY!
PARK THE DAMN SCHOOL BUSES!
PARENTS SHOW RESPONSIBILITY!
TAKE YOUR OWN KIDS TO SCHOOL!
YOUR KIDS SHOULD NOT BE FED BREAKFAST AT THE TAXPAYERS EXPENSE!
YOU HAD EM YOU SUPPORT EM!

it's not a matter of parking the buses, all we have to do is quit running two buses for each route. we run an early bus and a late bus for those who miss the first one. how about this: GET UP AND CATCH THE BUS!!!

NO, it won't work that way. The parents can't get up and get their kids to the 1st bus or 2nd bus because they are up themselves making more green straw kids to catch the taxpayer yellow buses. If they can't make the kids breakfast how do you expect them to cut early morning passion?

Yeah, I know how you people in Pike feel about people that are not born and raised here! Yall should just go ahead and post a sign at every entrance into this county that states "If you ain't from here we don't want ya here!"

we don't mind people who want to live in pike who come here to live peaceably; but, when you post bad things about our county we will quickly tell you "don't let the door hit you in the a55 on the way out".

The "If idiots could fly" comment was directed at the people who get on here and make asinine comments about getting rid of the buses and to #12.1 I guess the infrastructure is already in place!
I guess you people don't realize that The Pike County School system is the only thing that Pike County has going for it. Without the school and it's Yellow Buses this county would be nothing! As most people know enrollment at the schools is down this year, so take the buses away and see what happens!
As for you Fat Bass Tard, I have read many of your comments about how bad this county and it's people are, but I guess thats peaceful living as long as your the one bumbing your gums!
To #14, I'm just a nice Southern Lady!

most of the people i've complained about are people just like you that come here, use up our resources, demand new services and then complain about how bad they hate it here. all i'm saying is the property sells just as good as it buys and if you don't like what pike has to offer, then you should move on to the next place.

i've also complained about the boe, boc, sheriff's office and the school administration. i feel it is my civic duty to do so when these organizations are wildly out of control as they have been for the last 10 years.

one more thing, i don't think you can find one place where i've attacked the entire county as you did with the airport remark.

i like pike county, i've lived here my entire life and i like that it's small, rural, doesn't have a full time fire department or animal control.

as far as the school system, it was good before the current administration arrived and it will continue to be good long after they are gone. it has absolutely nothing to do with how they run the school. it has to do with the dedicated teachers that work at this school and the parents who in most cases tirelessly support them.

Wrong answer, your no "Nice Southern Lady." My guess is you rent a small place in Pike so you can suck off our school system with a address. Your home is probably Clayton County. You pay no tax in Pike for the schools or property tax.

People like me? Do you know me? What resources have I used up and what new services have I demanded? I guess since I wasn't born and raised here I should just keep my opinion to myself Huh! Thats the way it works here, right? I guess if my opinion was the same as yours that everything would be good!

My husband and I have lived in Pike for 15 years and We LOVE IT! We own our home, pay our taxes and help our neighbor in need. Now, neither my husband nor I were born in Georgia, but we couldn’t imagine living or raising our kids anywhere else. We also have full time jobs that require us to leave the house at 6am. I am a nurse locally and he works fixing heating and air units in Atlanta. He also donates his services to the Elderly locally that are on set incomes who have no air in the summer or heat in the winter.
So, here we are, we have a child in the middle school who takes the bus. Please tell me how my child will get to school if the busses stop running? Do you plan to take all the kids to school personally? If not, your comments are not needed. Just because you don’t need the bus service, doesn’t mean you have the right to put down those of us who do need the busses.
I commend the bus drivers for getting up so early to make sure the kids are on time for school and I commend the teachers for their hard work, time and devotion to all of the kids who attend Pike County schools.

That was very Christian of you to let me know. Now, let me, let you know something. If the United States was founded on the Christian religion, the Constitition would clearly say so-but it does not. The men responible for building the foundation of the United States were men of The Enlightenment, not men of Christianity. They were Deists, who did not believe that the Bible was true. They were Freethinkers.
Living in the United States means that you have the freedom to choose what religion you wish to participate in. Yes, Christians are the majority, but that does not mean that Christians get to rule everyone and it does not mean that Chrisitians get to do away with everyone that do not believe what they believe.
I believe in God, but I leave the judgement of others beliefs in Gods hands, he has the final say, not me.

Just one more thing for Insider in Pike. When and if the Christians forcefully take back the country, what do yall plan on doing with the nonbelievers? Will it be a branding with a redhot iron, burning at the stake, or just send them all to other contries to be shed of them? Just wondering.

Jefferson absolutely believed in God--but it was not the God of Orthodax Christianity, he was a Deist(Natures's God).
Lincoln was not a member of any church and Washington was a Freemason.
Just because they mentioned God in some of their writings does not make them Christians.
It still doesn't say in the Constitution that this Nation was founded on the Gospel of Jesus Christ nor does it say that this is a Christian Nation.

Maybe they did profess a "belief" in Jesus Christ but, they did not push their beliefs onto others. They did not prosecute people for not believing what they did. They stood for ALL people not just a select group.

I was having a mug of home brew just last night with George and Abe. Since they have gotten a few years on them, one mug of brew and they start telling the truth about their young days.

It turns out that George only confessed to the chopping of the cherry tree because he needed an alibi at the time of the local tobaccy barn burning.

And Abe only freed the slaves because he needed their expertise to whip the South. His exact sentence was "I knew them dam Yankees could not whip their way out of a brown paper bag...do you like my hat...did you see my picture on the penny...that dress on the Geico does make Mary's butt look big?"

please name one person who has been prosecuted for their religious beliefs in the USA or pike county.

the only people that i see being persecuted in the USA for religious beliefs are Christians. making someone resign for discussing God and trying to help someone is PERSECUTION and the idea that you can't discuss religion in schools is expressly against the constitution of the United States.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"

note the last part of that sentence. interpretation:

congress will make no law about religion to promote or prohibit the free exercise thereof.

forcing the bus driver to resign was/is a violation of the first amendment right to freedom of religion.

Well, glad yall had a good visit and a few laughs over a good mug of brew and ya didn't have to sit there and have the Gospel of Jesus Christ shoved in your face everytime they opened their mouth! Wish I could have been there.

1. Students have the right to pray as individually or in groups or discuss their religious views with each other as long as they are not disruptive.
2.Employees (teachers, bus drivers, etc...) of the public schools when acting in those roles are reprsentitives of the state and in those capacities are prohibited from encouraging or soliciting student religious or anti-religious activities.
Since they are represenitives of the state that brings in the Establishment of Religion Clause/ A wall of seperation between Church and State. So the bus driver can exercise his first amendment right on his/her own time when he is not a representive of the state, but not on the job when he/she is a representitive of the state.

there is no place in the constitution of the united states that expresses a wall of separation between church and state. it explicitly expresses that CONGRESS shall make no law in respect establishing a religion. it does not say that government employees cannot discuss religion.

again, stop spouting your revisionist doctrine created by the liberal, leftist colleges that also have produced such things as occupy stupid street.

This was my kids bus driver. I think it is just crazy that parents acted like this over their child being given a pamplet to come to church. Maybe if the parents were more in tune to their child, the child would not have felt that he needed to talk about his problems with the bus driver. I also think that when they decided to take God out of the schools, alot of crazy things started happening. I mean, jobs are already hard to come by and now this bus driver doesn't have a job because these parents overreacted. Apparently they do alot of that though because their child felt the need to talk to the bus driver and not the parents. Maybe somebody should start investigating the parents.

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